core fans down 31%
Seems reasonable. One thing the pampered millionaires in tight pants might not have realized was that REDNECKS watch football (or did at one time). RedNecks tend to be patriotic. They also tend NOT to spend money on what they don't like. The National Felons Leauge has become unlikeable to RedNecks..they have thrown it in our face that they do not have the same values that we do.
So...we quit going to see pampered millionaires in tight pants chase a ball around a field. NASCAR is much more interesting anyway...and American to the Core.
- Over just one month of player, coach, and owner protests of the flag and National Anthem, the National Football League has gone from America's sport to the least liked of top professional and college sports, according to a new poll.
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From the end of August to the end of September, the favorable ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57 percent to 44 percent, and it has the highest unfavorable rating – 40 percent – of any big sport, according to the Winston Group survey provided exclusively to Secrets.
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Dallas Cowboys took a knee before the playing of the National Anthem.
Worse for football, which was already seeing lower TV ratings and empty stadium seats, the month of protests and complaints about them from President Trump drove core fans, men 34-54, away, the most significant indicator that NFL brass aren't in touch with their base.
I quit paying football any mind when my kids quit playing.
For a while, it was their only exposure to mandatory indoctrination...er, I mean public edumacation. My oldest boy was a monster, and the coach used to beg me to let him play, cuz at 13 he was ~300 lbs, almost a black belt, and a natural leader. When he decided he wanted to try it I took him to a practice.
Knowing my kids would rebel, I wouldn't let them cut their hair, so with his helmet on, he had a sort of skirt of hair coming out. Very cute =p LOL
The coach told him 'ok these three guys are gonna try to get by you, and your job is to stop them from gettting to the QB.' He nodded, having understood.
The coach blew the whistle and the play began. He grabbed all three guys, threw them to the ground, and stood over them pointing his finger, meaning 'stay down'.
They all threw up their hands and said stuff like 'ok dude!' while I fell down on the grass laughing, and the coach came running up to tell him he wasn't supposed to use his hands - but great job!
LOL
He became captain of the football team, and took 'em to state in his senior year, for the first time in 47 years.
So, I was a football fan for about four years.
Heck yea. I stopped watching a couple years ago and have switched over to European and American soccer. Way more fun.
Well I 100% believe in these players right to protest because that's part of what our troops died for. To be a patriot means to support and celebrate freedom of speech and expression. To live in a land we can protest is amazing and I'd rather have it than some dictator pointing a gun at the backs of our athletes heads. But I completely understand fans not wanting to take part in it and that's their right as well.
How long they'll stand by that with this economic impact is anyones guess...
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